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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Grambling, himself, describe his profession?
(a) Professional entrepreneur.
(b) Financial architect.
(c) Builder of dreams.
(d) Friend of the little person.

2. What does successful therapy require of a patient?
(a) A desire to fix a problem.
(b) A lot of cash.
(c) Intense concentration.
(d) Willingness to endure criticism.

3. How do psychopaths treat those in positions inferior to them?
(a) They ingratiate themselves.
(b) They brutalize them.
(c) They con them.
(d) They mock them.

4. Why is it important to avoid power struggles with a psychopath?
(a) They will take revenge if you defeat them.
(b) They are smarter than the rest of us.
(c) They will always win.
(d) Their need for dominance causes them to focus on winning.

5. Who do psychopaths typically blame when punished for their misconduct?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Society as a whole.
(c) Someone else.
(d) Their intimate friends.

6. Which traditional forms of treatment are successful with psychopaths?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) Electroshock and psychosurgery.
(c) None of them.
(d) Group therapy and client-centered therapy.

7. What is a typical sign of psychopathic conversation?
(a) Flattery.
(b) Interest in the listener.
(c) Self-contradiction.
(d) Entertaining stories.

8. What do psychopaths feel for their victims?
(a) Unusual interest.
(b) Total indifference.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Intense hatred.

9. How can you protect yourself from a psychopath's flattery?
(a) Know your own weak spots.
(b) Avoid conversation with him.
(c) Decide whether what he says is true.
(d) Flatter him in return.

10. Who normally serves on parole boards?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Political appointees with few relevant qualifications.
(c) Mental health clinicians.
(d) Criminal justice professionals.

11. How do psychopaths tend to view therapists?
(a) As surrogate family.
(b) As friends and supporters.
(c) As their only hope.
(d) As objects to be conned.

12. Why does a prison psychiatrist claim the psychopathy checklist is valuable for parole boards?
(a) It gives boards someone to blame when recidivism occurs.
(b) It ensures that no one who may commit future crime is released.
(c) It helps boards quantify their decisions.
(d) It is insurance against claims of improper parole.

13. Which part of the brain is more analytical and sequential?
(a) The right hemisphere.
(b) The frontal lobe.
(c) The left hemisphere.
(d) Neither: both sides work together.

14. How did John Grambling make his living?
(a) Defrauding banks.
(b) Defrauding friends.
(c) Defrauding clients.
(d) Defrauding the government.

15. Why did the Australian Supreme Court pronounce Garry David mentally ill?
(a) David's behavior was clearly anti-social.
(b) No psychopath could possibly be sane.
(c) David was obviously schizophrenic.
(d) Anyone with David's history must be mentally ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hervey Cleckley see as the main difference between psychopaths who are not incarcerated and those who are?

2. Which part of the brain is more emotional and processes events simultaneously?

3. Why did one psychologist run off with her psychopathic patient?

4. What is the most overwhelming factor in the psychopath's ability to manipulate others?

5. How is psychological denial useful?

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